Island? Which island?

Rating: Null/10 (3 November 2006)

From the minute I started watching the film "The Island" it fascinated me. The director Michael Bay did a good job by getting the attention of the viewers.
The story takes place in the nearby future and starts in a huge building, apparently under the ground. You get sucked into the life of Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) who turns out to be a clone. Lincoln Six Echo lives in the community under the ground with thousands of clones more. All the clones think they have survived a contamination because the institution wants them to believe that. This isn't the truth. In fact, the clones are the insurance policy of the rich people who, when they get ill, get the body parts of their clones and will survive while their clones die. The clones, or agnates as they are called in the movie, like the centre they live in but they want one thing more: to win the lottery. If you win the lottery you can go to the Island. "You're special. You have a very special purpose in life. You've been chosen. The Island awaits you"
Lincoln Six Echo finds out the truth about the centre and he escapes with another clone, Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson). There is where the action begin. I'm a huge fan of action movies but this film is too much. I like it when the action stays real but what happens in this film is too surreal. Falling of a huge skyscraper and being shot at, it makes me wonder, why won't they die? Well of course, they are the good guys and can't die! That's a bit to corny.
In this film you can see quite a lot of similarities with the novel "Brave New World" from Aldous Huxley. Both of the stories take place in the nearby future. In Brave New World the characters are 'normal' people and not clones but the principle is the same. Both of the groups are being indoctrinated by hypnopaedia what affects their minds. Another similarity is the way the community works. You can recognize a person by their name, each group has their own name like Echo, Delta, Epsilon etc.
I really liked the movie although it's a bit too surreal for me. The main thought about the future and what we can do in the medical sector is good thing to think about. The director did a good job because I'm still thinking of what will happen in the nearby future, because we are going to live in it